There's a lot more to syncing an iPod than just copying the mp3s onto it. There's a big database on there that needs to be modified every time you add a track, so that the iPod can find it while browsing by artist, genre etc.
KDE does not use Glib, Arts does. Arts is used by KDE as its sound system but it is not technically part of KDE. And as you say, Glib is not really that useful for C++ programming.
You're not seriously claiming xmms as an example of good GTK+ programming are you? Sure, the back end is superb, but it looks like crap and no amount of skinning can fix it.
I should point out that I develop using GTK+ at work and KDE/Qt for pleasure, and Qt is so much nicer to work with it's not even funny.
Actually, it was the Computer Science Department that has most of the history - The Manchester Computing Centre provided computing services to the rest of the University, and was a seperate department (although located in the same building).
At one point, Manchester had the largest network of Suns in europe outside of Sun itself.
Just take a random id3 field that you don't use for anything, and fill it with a random number. You can probably write a srcipt in a few seconds. Bingo, different md5.
The only problem is that a lot of file sharing software uses the fact that 2 files (from different sources) have the same hash in order to swarm the download from multiple sources. If everybody goes around intentionally making their mp3s have different hashes, swarming basically won't work anymore.
Actualy, peanuts aren't nuts at all, they're legumes. But the rest of your reasoning is correct, some people have violent allergies to nuts but nothing else.
The Starchaser Thunderbird rocket has always been called that - Steve's a fan of the original Gerry Anderson series, and many of us were there when Steve met Gerry at FAB Cafe in Manchester a few years back.
Heh, I still chuckle when I think about the Starchaser rocket behind the bar there - they used to have a real one, then the transport to take it to the launch site broke down and several big guys had to carry it through the streets of Manchester / Salford.
If you know how to use red hat or mandrake you do not have to have dependency hell or a slow system. If you install apt-get for rpm then you can just type apt-get install blah to install the package and all of its dependencies. How hard is that.
Or just use uprmi - It Just Works once it's set up.
Hmmm, 1946 you say? Then why does the link you posted say that:
Early in 1947 Trevor Pearcey started the logical design
and go on to say:
Despite obstacles, the Radiophysics Mark 1 Automatic Computer came into operation in June 1951, just in time for the first Australian Computing Conference!
Because then they wouldn't be able to see the reactions of people like you who just assumed it meant a piece of debris.
Another point is that many of the parts are interchangeable between the different shuttles, so a piece of Columbia may also happen to be a piece of Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour.
Yes, you answered your own question - it's because all of the planets orbits are at different inclinations, and therefore even when another planet is directly between earth and sun (or the sun is between the earth and planet) it isn't necesarily directly in between.
It's the same way that you don't get an eclipse during every full and new moon.
You mean in a similar way to Apple taking something like... ooh, I dunno, FreeBSD say - and modifying it so that it'll run it on top of Mach? How mad would that be?
Except they did do, it's called Darwin. In a similar way, MKLinux isn't running a stock Linux kernel on top of Mach, it was a modified version.
AFAIK, development is hardly progressing at lightning speed, but don't take my word for it - look here
No, you're wrong. MkLinux ("MicroKernel Linux") is a project running Linux on top of a Mach kernel. And yes, it was started by Apple, before they decided to use a BSD base.
Granted, it's not Darwin, but you're still wrong.
You're spreading misconceptions as if they're fact and that shits me. Get it right.
Actually, I read that the numbers were based on the equivalent performance of an old Thunderbird Athlon (non-XP), rather than pentiums.
However, there's little doubt that they are meant to be compared to pentiums, and you raise an interesting point. Even stranger would be - what happened if intel adopted the same scheme? Then they'd both basically be making up numbers!
I remember when he had one of his real unmanned rockets displayed in a bar in Manchester, then the lorry to transport it got delayed, so it had to be carried on foot through the city centre!
IMAGINE THE SPACE SHUTTLE BEING CARRIED by a team of men through the streets of New York. Well Hyde rocket man Steve Bennett had to have his team of assistants carry his rocket Starchaser 3a through the streets of Manchester. It had been on show at the Fab cafe theme bar, Portland St, and should have been taken to Salford University for a lecture, but the lorry booked to carry it was delayed, so it had to be transported using leg and shoulder power! Salford University lecturer Steve hopes to make it big through his rocket-building hobby-turned-business, and predicts a glowing future for space travel. Who knows, maybe in a few years time we'll be blasting off in one of Steve's rockets from Ringway to Mars on a late booking.
Anyway, he's been a local minor celebrity for years now, all the best to him.
To be fair, this isn't really astronomy - astronomy is studying space and the objects in it, especially visible ones.
What Steve is doing is more like rocket science, albeit at a fairly amateur level.
OT, I remember when he had a real (early) starchaser rocket above the bar in a place here in Manchester. Now we have to make do with a full size replica...
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There's a lot more to syncing an iPod than just copying the mp3s onto it. There's a big database on there that needs to be modified every time you add a track, so that the iPod can find it while browsing by artist, genre etc.
You're not seriously claiming xmms as an example of good GTK+ programming are you? Sure, the back end is superb, but it looks like crap and no amount of skinning can fix it.
I should point out that I develop using GTK+ at work and KDE/Qt for pleasure, and Qt is so much nicer to work with it's not even funny.
Canopy own something like 5% of Trolltech. That does not make them a Canopy Company.
though, is it?
In this case, if the root id wasn't hardcoded, but was a variable defined somewhere else (which is regarded as good practice itself):
andare not vastly different.
At one point, Manchester had the largest network of Suns in europe outside of Sun itself.
The only problem is that a lot of file sharing software uses the fact that 2 files (from different sources) have the same hash in order to swarm the download from multiple sources. If everybody goes around intentionally making their mp3s have different hashes, swarming basically won't work anymore.
Actualy, peanuts aren't nuts at all, they're legumes. But the rest of your reasoning is correct, some people have violent allergies to nuts but nothing else.
Red Hat's decision to file legal action does not seem conducive to the long-term survivability of SCO.
Heh, I still chuckle when I think about the Starchaser rocket behind the bar there - they used to have a real one, then the transport to take it to the launch site broke down and several big guys had to carry it through the streets of Manchester / Salford.
Or just use uprmi - It Just Works once it's set up.
Nitpciking - it won't be a tidal wave, because it won't be caused by tides.
It's an aquired taste, definitely. Still, not everybody likes it, so you're not that odd :)
and go on to say:
But it won't work properly until version 3. Shit for Workgroups, anybody?
Another point is that many of the parts are interchangeable between the different shuttles, so a piece of Columbia may also happen to be a piece of Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour.
It's the same way that you don't get an eclipse during every full and new moon.
Except they did do, it's called Darwin. In a similar way, MKLinux isn't running a stock Linux kernel on top of Mach, it was a modified version.
AFAIK, development is hardly progressing at lightning speed, but don't take my word for it - look here
Granted, it's not Darwin, but you're still wrong.
You're spreading misconceptions as if they're fact and that shits me. Get it right.
How ironic.
However, there's little doubt that they are meant to be compared to pentiums, and you raise an interesting point. Even stranger would be - what happened if intel adopted the same scheme? Then they'd both basically be making up numbers!
Been a while since I read it so I may be mistaken.
Anyway, it was written by a local newspaper, what do you expect?
Maybe acknowledging that he stands little chance but wishing him well would be more appropriate?
From http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/newsletter/e wm302.html (near the bottom):
IMAGINE THE SPACE SHUTTLE BEING CARRIED by a team of men through the streets of New York. Well Hyde rocket man Steve Bennett had to have his team of assistants carry his rocket Starchaser 3a through the streets of Manchester. It had been on show at the Fab cafe theme bar, Portland St, and should have been taken to Salford University for a lecture, but the lorry booked to carry it was delayed, so it had to be transported using leg and shoulder power! Salford University lecturer Steve hopes to make it big through his rocket-building hobby-turned-business, and predicts a glowing future for space travel. Who knows, maybe in a few years time we'll be blasting off in one of Steve's rockets from Ringway to Mars on a late booking.
Anyway, he's been a local minor celebrity for years now, all the best to him.
What Steve is doing is more like rocket science, albeit at a fairly amateur level.
OT, I remember when he had a real (early) starchaser rocket above the bar in a place here in Manchester. Now we have to make do with a full size replica...
I'm begging you, no more...